I decided to check out the geometry - angles of reflection and patterns - that the balls were making. In order to modify the constraints like gravity, I purchased the app. Needless to say, middle school students might be interested to see that a line can be given a fart tone.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Math on Soundrop App
I decided to check out the geometry - angles of reflection and patterns - that the balls were making. In order to modify the constraints like gravity, I purchased the app. Needless to say, middle school students might be interested to see that a line can be given a fart tone.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Screenchomp audio
A few of you reported issues with the microphone in Screenchomp. Steven found the setting.
Go to the privacy setting and open the microphone menu. Then you will see the toggle for sound after each program. Also I learned from you guys that using multiple pages in Educreations works well when showing off the apps. Be sure to start the recording on the first page.
Ball State Math Dept iPad Meeting #1
iPad Mathematics Department Meeting - March 26, 2014
Holly, Crystal, Brian, John A., Janet, Kathy
We discussed what everyone was doing
Janet is projecting the 125 text, but is unable to view Visi
Janet is using a calculator app and a stats apps called Statistics Vizualizer (statviz), StatCalcLite, and the Blackboard app (works better on campus).
Crystal shared information on Aurasma.
Holly is making videos with Educreations and uploading to Bb.
Holly would like to find apps for Business Calculus.
Discussed
- Blackboard - how to put hot links into a content area
- Educreations - can add multiple pages with screenshots before recording and upload links to Internet. Not sure if there are storage or bandwidth issues.
Tips for use
- Tap text to select, copy and paste from one program to another. This is important when sharing url’s.
- Statistics apps need csv files that can be easily made in Excel. These can also be made in Numbers (Apple’s Excel).
Suggested apps that were showcased
- Bell Curve
- Notability (not free but very good)
Kathy’s apps for this week include:
- Genius Scan - take a picture with the camera and it is now a pdf file.
- Myscript Calculator - handwriting calculator
- Quick Graph - nice function grapher
Suggested courses from Lynda.com - Some of the chapters contain relevant information to our setting. Click on Browse Library - Teacher Tools and then go down the list to iPad. BSU faculty and students have free access to Lynda, but must log in from the BSU website.
- iPad Tips and Tricks
- iPad Fundamentals
I am sure that there is something I forgot, or might not be accurate, so please use the comment box below to add information. Also, share tips, hints and GOOD APPS for us to check out.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Issue with Myscript calculator
A friend of mine alerted me to the fact that this app "knows" order of operations. When reviewing for ISTEP, the students had to use a calculator that did not and they worked left to right. Now the teachers do not use this app.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
MindMeister
So this is a cool program the you can access via Google Drive. I can edit maps on multiple machines in real time but only three map are available in the free version. This might not show the map so I am adding a screen shot. I can insert links and files.
My First Mind Map
I forgot to hit PUBLISH so this was sitting on my site as a SAVED page.
My First Mind Map
I forgot to hit PUBLISH so this was sitting on my site as a SAVED page.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Educreations public
The lesson below was set as pvt and this one is public. I want to see how they are different.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
LMS
Now the real fun begins. Every teacher has to use a Learning Management System of some sort. The ones I have used with real live students are:
Angel
BlackBoard
Moodle
Ones that I have experimented with are Edmodo and just the other day - Schoology. I have teacher friends who use My Big Campus. There are many flavores to choose from. Wikispaces has LMS features and the education package of Google Docs does as well. While this is not a focus of our course, taking tome to go beyond what you know about Bb would be a wise thing to do.
IBook Author
So I had a plan to use iBook Author because it is a popular app. The interface is similar to keynote and rapidweaver. After looking at a few templates it became clear that to create a lesson I would be doing a lot of copy / paste type of work as well as formatting pages, chapter sections and what not. The learning curve was okay but the production time for a lesson plan was not realistic. The main drawback is that the authoring has to take place on the Mac. I can find an online textbook that will be good enough.
One final thing to mention is that when I emailed the file to be opened on the iPad it did not work. I think the book has to be published in iBook to have access to it. More learning involved on this one to really test it out so I passed. The pages are pretty though.
update: If the file is small enough you can send a link to be downloaded otherwise you have to physically attach the iPad to your computer to install the book. ~vm
update: If the file is small enough you can send a link to be downloaded otherwise you have to physically attach the iPad to your computer to install the book. ~vm
Google Docs Lesson File
Where did the toolbar go?
I can paste the link but that is so sloppy
This is from the weekend. One issue I just learned is that I don't know if I can change the share setting from within the iPad app. Will have to share via my Mac.
Evernote has potential
One of the first programs I sent files to was Evernote. Screenchomp and Skitch allow sharing directly to Evernote. Also, I have an account. I really like that I can add a narration within a note and that I could share a Notebook (sets of notes). So here are a few examples:
myScript MathPad
Skitch
Sample Note with attached GGB file and an audio clip
myScript MathPad
Skitch
Sample Note with attached GGB file and an audio clip
Digital Artifact in Keynote
I started out in Keynote because this is the native presentation tool for Apple products. I was able to share the file via the cloud but I ended up editing different versions and corrupted the file. What you see here is not the final version because I moved on to MindMeister.
https://www.icloud.com/iw/#keynote/BAI-ASAev2yrQW3FL8eBlYsAElDbmcexyfuE/Ta_da
Linking tool is funky
https://www.icloud.com/iw/#keynote/BAI-ASAev2yrQW3FL8eBlYsAElDbmcexyfuE/Ta_da
Linking tool is funky
Educreations geometry tools
http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/starting/18127604/?ref=app
Insert photo from App, mark up as recording
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